Saturday, September 24, 2011

Changes to StumbleUpon Account as of October 24, 2011

Our primary goal at StumbleUpon is to help you discover great things. Our focus is on delivering
you faster, better and more personalized recommendations, so that each time you click
the "Stumble!" button you see more amazing content from every corner of the web!

In order to focus on improving the discovery experience for you, and after careful
consideration, we have decided to remove Groups, discontinue the ability to select Themes, and
simplify Blogging capabilities. We know some of you have enjoyed having these features, but we
believe that these changes will allow us to better focus on making stumbling amazing for you.

Here's how these changes will take place:

Groups: Groups will be visible until October 24th,
then will be removed permanently from the site. You can manually copy anything you'd
like to keep, or will be able to export group information. We are working on an export
option and will send more specific details in a few weeks.

Themes: Your current theme will remain up until
October 24th. At that time all themes will be changed to a default theme that is a
white background with black type. To see how your profile will look with the default
theme, change your settings
here.

Blog Posts/HTML Reviews: After October 24th we
will no longer offer HTML/Blogging functionality, but you'll still be able to access
blog posts and reviews created before October 24th which will exist in plain text
format. We are working on an export option and will send more specific details about
this in a few weeks.